The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-02-13
RAYoNNE BABBLEs.


school Trustee Frank M. Manning, of
the Third Ward, is making commercial
tour through Canada.
a session of the BavoDue Teachers AS
lsociation viii be held Wednesday afternoon
in Pubic School No. q
Rev. James F. Riggs. pastor of the Ber-
gen Point Reformed Church, will preach
this evening on Jealousy"
Edward L. Vredenburgh. of the Bergen
Point Athletic Club, is making an extended
business tour through Texas.
The next social as emily of the Pamrapo
Athletic Club will be held in Suffers Hall
on the evening of Thursday, March Sd.
An encampment of Custer Post, No 6
Sons of Veterans, will be held Friday even
ing in Wulfs Hall, at Bayonne proper.
Arrangements toward the organization
of mutual benefit and aid society are be-
ing perfected by the members of the police
force.
The oyster supper and entertainment
recently given by the ladies of the First
Presbyterian Church, of Bergen Point, re-
allied over 500.
In Nagengast Hall, at Centreville, the
members of the George Nagengast Chow
der Club partook Friday evening of their
social chowder dinner.
At the residence of Mrs. E. Este, of Six
tenth street aud Avenue A, Bergen Point,
an/entertainment will be given Tuesday
eTening for the benefit of the poor.
IA Baptist services will be held this morn
ing in the Third Germany Reformed
church of Bergen Point. Rev. Robert E.
Farrier, of New York city, will officiate.
An adjourned meeting of the Board of
IL IL. E..
ing. The Board of Councilman will also
meet Tuesday evening in regular session.
Tomorrow evening regular monthly
business meeting of Bayonne Mutual Build
ing and Loan Association, No. l, will be
held in sehuyler's Hall ct Bergen Point.
Swift's Bergen Point Beef Company will
begin business operations tomorrow in the
new structure which has been erected on
the corner of Avenue and North avenue
In celebration of the twelfth birthday OF
her sister Blanche, Mrs j. Liant. of Centre
street, Pamrapo, entertained large assem-
blage of happy young people on Tuesday
evening.
The amateur minstrel troupe of the
Pamrapo Athletic Club will give on We'd
nssday and Thursday evenings, in Salter's
Hall, on Centre street, variety entertain
ment.
Many of the operatives employed in the
mandatory of the Singer Sewing Machine
company at Elizabetbport, contem plate re-
n moving to Bergen Point and Centreville
Ne1uring the spring months.
president William Gibbons of the First
Wand Workingmen's Club is candidate
for the nomination for Freebooter from
this end of the Sixth District So is Coun-
Gilman William Kelly, of the Fourth Ward
By the election of the following officers
the Workingmen's Club, of the First Ward,
has been organized: President, William
Gibbons; Vice President, James Dimlee;
Secretary, William Coyle; Treasurer, Pat
rick Connolly.
William Flnnegan, of Centreville, has is
sued to any man in this city challenge to
wrestle him for a wager of from $50 to $500,
the conditions of the match to be collar
and elbow bouts, best two out of three. and
the winner to take the stakes and the gate
money.
Genial "Dan" Chauncey, the we'll known
third baseman of the clubs ase-ballteam
has been chosen captain of the Bergen
Point Athletic club, vice james A. Tying,
resigned, who will pitch during the ensu-
ing season for the team of the Staten
Island Athletic club.
h For the benefit of the fund for the relief
of the striking coal-handlers and their fam
lilies the members of the Young Mems
Catholic Lyceum, of Bergen Point, will
produce in st. Mary's Hall, within a few
days the stirring Irish melodrama, ''Pike
aO'Callahau."
Councilman Robert T. Faucet, of the
\ Fifth Ward, Past Master Workman of
Bayonne CITY Lodge, No, 8, Ancient order
of United Worklngmen. represented his
\ lodge at the session held during the past
6Yeek in Pokomoke City, Nd, by the
Graud Lodge of Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey.
Among the veterans of this city who at
tended the State Encampment at Trenton
4 of the G.. A. r. were Past Commander
Frederick Boorman, of Van Houten Post,
No 8: Commander Howard l.. Lockman,
Past Commander John McElmeel and Com.
rade John Vreeland, of James N. Van Bus
4 kirk Post. No. 100.
Parties from New York city havs pur-
chased the building on Evergreen street,
Bergen Point, now occupied by the paro-
Eschial school of st. Mary's Roman Catholic
church, and they propose to convert it into
q shirt factory and thereby give employ
ment to two hundred hands.
Mr. Reginald j. Bray, an assistant chem
4 ist in the Bergen Point Chemical Works at
Constable Hook, has resigned his position,
4 in order to prosecute his medical studies at
the Burlington, VT, Medical College. Be-
fore he left town his fellow employees pre-
&sented him with a handsome golden scarf
pin and an elegantly chased gold-headed
cane
"a Under the auspices of the Corrilidaen
kSSciety of the Bergen Point Reformed
A ChNrch, well-attended social entertain
menN and reception was held Thursday
] evening in the chapel of the ediice The
church SApir-Mr Seiple Misses Riegel,
! Anderson and Naylor, Mr.. E. Walton Spring
4 and Prof. A. E. Sloan participated in the